Eric Selbin, professor of political science, was named co-editor of Rowman & Littlefield's "New Millennium Books in International Studies" Series at last week's International Studies Association meeting in Montreal, Canada. New Millennium Books seek to reflect the unique position of the global system at the end of the Cold War, the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of a new millennium in which our understandings about war, peace, identity, sovereignty, security and sustainability-whether economic, environmental or ethical-are likely to be challenged. Selbin joins Deborah Gerner, the original series editor. For more information, see http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/series/ and click on "New Millennium Books."

Kiyoshi Tamagawa, associate professor of music, presented a paper, "Formal Influences on the Composition of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor," at the College Music Society's South Central Regional Conference, March 11-13, 2004, at Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Ark.

March 19, 2004

Professor of Political Science Eric Selbin has accepted a three-year, part-time appointment as Professor of Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies at Umeå University in Umeå, Sweden. This position will include the supervision of Ph.D. students, developing the department's research in peace and conflict studies/international relations, occasional guest lectures, and offering one course during the University's June term each summer. On March 1-3, Selbin presented three lectures sponsored by the Political Science Department: "Democracy in Theory and in the World," "The Problems and Perils of Actually Existing Democracy" and "Democracy and the Future in Latin America and the Caribbean." In addition, he presented a lecture sponsored by Utrikespolitiska Füreningen (Foreign Politics Organization), "Trials and Tribulations of Instantiating Democracy: Haiti." Umeå University is one of Sweden's six universities and has about 20,000 students from all over the world.

David Tabb Stewart, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, presented a paper, "Women's (Sexual) Subjectivity in the Holiness Code," at the Southwestern regional conference of the Society of Biblical Literature in Dallas on March 6, 2004. Stewart also has had his paper, "The Parturient's Ritual for a Girl: The Puzzle of Double Pollution," accepted for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (in the "Feminist Hermeneutics of the Bible" section) to be held in San Antonio in November.

March 12, 2004

Southwestern students working with Associate Professor of Education Michael Kamen and Assistant Professor of Mathematics Cami Sawyer operated three booths at the Annie Purl Science and Math night for Pre-K through 2nd graders. Jacob Schrum and Morgan Sweatt demonstrated programming lego mindstorms. They were assisted by Elisabeth Reyna and Charles Holloway. Jamie Hardy, Sarah House, Grant Kessler and Kirsten Navarrette demonstrated static electricity using a Van de Graaff generator. Julia Aleman, Danver Chandler, Emily Duncan, Anna Ferrick, and Jessica Keen showed the students how to create interesting shapes using giant tangrams. All the booths were a big hit with the students and their parents.